Richard Burton
Biography: Richard Burton CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his mellifluous baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called "the natural successor to Olivier" by critic Kenneth Tynan. A heavy drinker, Burton's perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues and added to his image as a great performer who had wasted his talent. Nevertheless, he is widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. Burton was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won an Oscar. He was a recipient of BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton ascended into the ranks of the top box office stars. By the late 1960s, Burton was one of the highest-paid actors in the world, receiving fees of $1 million or more plus a share of the gross receipts. Burton remained closely associated in the public consciousness with his second wife, actress Elizabeth Taylor. The couple's turbulent relationship, in which they were married twice and divorced twice, was rarely out of the news. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Burton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: November 10, 1925
Deathday: August 05, 1984
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Known For
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966-06-22
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Overview: A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988-10-24
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Overview: Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-24
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To Be Hamlet
1985-01-19
To Be Hamlet
Overview: Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play, and the enduring popular fascination it has inspired. The actors interviewed are Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Nicol Williamson, Ben Kingsley, Jean Louis Barrault, Vittorio Gassman, Maximilian Schell, Innocenti Smoktunovsky, and Mandy Patinkin. Includes excerpts from various film and television versions of Hamlet, featuring these actors and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-19
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What's New Pussycat?
1965-06-22
What's New Pussycat?
Overview: A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-22
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The Assassination of Trotsky
1972-04-20
The Assassination of Trotsky
Overview: A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-20
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Breakthrough
1979-03-01
Breakthrough
Overview: Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Villain
1971-05-26
Villain
Overview: In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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Anne of the Thousand Days
1969-12-18
Anne of the Thousand Days
Overview: Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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The Medusa Touch
1978-04-13
The Medusa Touch
Overview: A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-13
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Julie Andrews Forever
2000-06-14
Julie Andrews Forever
Overview: Julie Andrews starred in Hollywood productions that have become iconic movies, winning an Oscar for her performance as Mary Poppins, a symbol of the magic of musicals from the 1960s. And yet, behind the squeaky-clean image hides a much more tortuous career, with its moments of glory and tough times, all of which explain the longevity of a story that is still being written.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-06-14
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The Taming of the Shrew
1967-03-08
The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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The Longest Day
1962-09-25
The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984-11-09
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Overview: George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-09
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Bluebeard
1972-09-01
Bluebeard
Overview: Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
Genres: Thriller Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965-12-16
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Overview: British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-16
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The Desert Rats
1953-05-20
The Desert Rats
Overview: In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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The Night of the Iguana
1964-08-06
The Night of the Iguana
Overview: A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-06
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Alexander the Great
1956-03-28
Alexander the Great
Overview: An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.
Genres: Adventure History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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Equus
1977-10-16
Equus
Overview: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-16
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The V.I.P.s
1963-09-01
The V.I.P.s
Overview: Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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Massacre in Rome
1973-10-04
Massacre in Rome
Overview: In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-04
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Under Milk Wood
1972-01-27
Under Milk Wood
Overview: The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-27
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Becket
1964-03-11
Becket
Overview: Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live on Stage!
2006-11-06
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: Live on Stage!
Overview: The live version of Jeff Wayne's 1978 bestselling album was brought to the stage in 2006 as part of a sell-out tour of the UK. Filmed at London's Wembley Arena, and using a blend of theatre, music and visual imagery, the production incorporates performers from the original recording, including Justin Hayward, Chris Thompson and Wayne himself. There's also audio and visual elements featuring Richard Burton, as well as the ten-piece Black Smoke Band and the 48-piece Ulladubulla Strings.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-06
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Candy
1968-12-17
Candy
Overview: A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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Ice Palace
1960-01-02
Ice Palace
Overview: Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-02
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The Rains of Ranchipur
1955-12-14
The Rains of Ranchipur
Overview: India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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Bitter Victory
1957-08-28
Bitter Victory
Overview: During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Look Back in Anger
1959-09-15
Look Back in Anger
Overview: A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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Raid on Rommel
1971-02-12
Raid on Rommel
Overview: Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-12
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Boom!
1968-05-26
Boom!
Overview: Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-26
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Hammersmith Is Out
1972-05-12
Hammersmith Is Out
Overview: The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient offers the innocent orderly vast riches if he'll help him escape.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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My Cousin Rachel
1952-12-25
My Cousin Rachel
Overview: A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Genres: Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Absolution
1978-06-05
Absolution
Overview: At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-05
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The Comedians
1967-10-31
The Comedians
Overview: American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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The Klansman
1974-10-25
The Klansman
Overview: A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent friend, Garth declares a one-man war on the Klan and hunts them down one-by-one.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-25
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The Sandpiper
1965-06-23
The Sandpiper
Overview: A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Doctor Faustus
1967-10-10
Doctor Faustus
Overview: Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-10
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Staircase
1969-08-20
Staircase
Overview: An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-20
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Sea Wife
1957-08-20
Sea Wife
Overview: In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-20
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Circle of Two
1981-05-07
Circle of Two
Overview: A 60-year-old artist shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-07
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999-01-01
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Overview: Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of legends. See some of Hollywood's top names and greatest talents in their very first appearances on celluloid. From Dustin Hoffman's 1966 stock and personality tests to Raquel Welch and James Coburn cavorting for Our Man Flint, from The Three Stooges to Rock Hudson, see stars trying to get on film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Waterfront
1950-07-26
Waterfront
Overview: When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
1964-09-23
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Overview: A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-23
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001-04-03
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Overview: Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-03
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988-05-16
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Overview: Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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Lovespell
1981-12-31
Lovespell
Overview: Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-31
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The Battle of Sutjeska
1973-07-03
The Battle of Sutjeska
Overview: The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
Genres: War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-07-03
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The Gathering Storm
1974-11-29
The Gathering Storm
Overview: Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-29
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The Tempest
1960-02-13
The Tempest
Overview: Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-13
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The Voyage
1974-03-11
The Voyage
Overview: The charming Adriana gets sick after her husband's death. Her brother-in-law takes her on a journey to meet a doctor, while love overwhelms them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-11
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Brief Encounter
1974-11-12
Brief Encounter
Overview: Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-12
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The Last Days of Dolwyn
1949-04-13
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Overview: An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-13
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Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
1976-01-01
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Overview: This feature-length Oscar®-nominated documentary focuses on Malcolm Lowry, author of one of the major novels of the 20th century, Under the Volcano. But while Lowry fought a winning battle with words, he lost his battle with alcohol. Shot on location in four countries, the film combines photographs, readings by Richard Burton from the novel and interviews with the people who loved and hated Lowry, to create a vivid portrait of the man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Woman with No Name
1950-10-31
The Woman with No Name
Overview: This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-31
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Now Barabbas
1949-05-24
Now Barabbas
Overview: A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-24
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Green Grow the Rushes
1951-11-06
Green Grow the Rushes
Overview: Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-06
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The Fifth Column
1960-01-29
The Fifth Column
Overview: A TV film made as part of The Buick-Electra Playhouse.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-29
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The Bramble Bush
1960-02-24
The Bramble Bush
Overview: A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Prince of Players
1955-01-11
Prince of Players
Overview: Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-11
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977-06-17
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Overview: Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a research specialist free her from its grasp?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-17
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Cleopatra
1963-06-12
Cleopatra
Overview: Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Where Eagles Dare
1968-12-04
Where Eagles Dare
Overview: World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
1961-01-01
A Tribute to Dylan Thomas
Overview: An atmospheric tribute to the genius of Welsh poet and dramatist Dylan Thomas, using many of the windswept locations where Thomas himself grew up and found his inspiration. The film is hosted/presented by Richard Burton, Thomas's friend, who narrates the story and appears from time to time amidst the Welsh landscape. Burton had already appeared in Douglas Cleverdon's acclaimed BBC radio dramatization of Thomas's 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood in the 1950s and, in the early Seventies, would appear in director Andrew Sinclair's film version as First Voice. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation and National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales in 2000.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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A Subject of Scandal and Concern
1960-11-06
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Overview: A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-06
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Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity
2009-11-29
Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity
Overview: We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration and subsequent release, then re-incarceration and her ultimate release once again-left us submerged knee-deep in the twists and turns of her life. Famous for doing nothing, she's the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-29
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Thursday's Children
1954-05-01
Thursday's Children
Overview: Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with British Film Institute in 2005.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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Alice in Wonderland
1983-10-03
Alice in Wonderland
Overview: From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-03
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CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
1976-11-28
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
Overview: CBS honors Lucille Ball with this celebration of her three CBS series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-28
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The Wild Geese
1978-06-28
The Wild Geese
Overview: A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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The Robe
1953-09-16
The Robe
Overview: Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
1983-12-11
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Overview: A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-11
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To the Ends of the Earth
1983-01-01
To the Ends of the Earth
Overview: The story of the three year expedition led by British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, which ended in August 1982, and which was man's first and only land and sea voyage around the world crossing both poles, without leaving the Earth's surface.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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A Wall in Jerusalem
1968-11-20
A Wall in Jerusalem
Overview: A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded using rare archive film footage and photographs of historic events in the development of 20th century Israel. Beginning with the Dreyfus Affair in 1894, the film covers Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism; the earliest immigration and settlements; the formation of kibbutzim; the Balfour Declaration; the rise of European anti-Semitism; the British occupation of Palestine; Arab confrontations; the United Nations resolution; the "Exodus" incident, and the Six Day War.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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The Man with No Name
1977-02-23
The Man with No Name
Overview: Profile of Clint Eastwood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-23
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024-05-16
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Overview: Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-16
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Zulu
1964-01-22
Zulu
Overview: In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-22
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Under Milk Wood
1992-04-19
Under Milk Wood
Overview: A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
Genres: TV Movie Animation Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-19
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The Big Sur
1965-05-01
The Big Sur
Overview: This MGM short film narrated by Richard Burton promotes its upcoming major release "The Sandpiper" (1965), starring Burton and his then wife Elizabeth Taylor. Panoramic shots of the ocean, the seashore, and the desert segue into the artistic community with various of its well-known artists at work and play. It all leads to clips from the film being made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton
1967-04-01
Acting in the 60's: Richard Burton
Overview: Richard Burton is interviewed by film critic Kenneth Tynan
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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The Comedians in Africa
1967-08-31
The Comedians in Africa
Overview: Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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On the Trail of the Iguana
1964-04-30
On the Trail of the Iguana
Overview: Behind the scenes documentary of the filming of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-30
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A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
1965-04-30
A Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
Overview: Promotional short for the film "The Sandpiper".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-30
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For Florence
1966-11-23
For Florence
Overview: A dramatic, solemn and refined work, "Per Firenze" spread throughout the world the cry for help that was rising in those hours from the city of Dante and Brunelleschi, giving rise to one of the greatest phenomena of solidarity that has gone down in history under the name of the "mud angels."
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-11-23
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The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
1962-02-11
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe
Overview: A musical special celebrating the fruitful collaboration of Broadway lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Stars from the current Broadway hit "Camelot" and from past triumphs such as "My Fair Lady," and the film "Gigi" perform the romantic, sophisticated songs of Lerner and Loewe.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-11
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March to Aldermaston
1959-02-01
March to Aldermaston
Overview: Collaborative documentary (credited to a committee rather than to individual filmmakers) detailing the CND march from London to Aldermaston at Easter 1958.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Wuthering Heights
1958-05-09
Wuthering Heights
Overview: Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation. [Originally aired on CBS's DuPont Show of the Month.]
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-09
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Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
1978-01-01
Stars' War - The Flight of the Wild Geese
Overview: Promotional short film about the making of the 1978 film The Wild Geese.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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On Location: Where Eagles Dare
1968-11-01
On Location: Where Eagles Dare
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the difficulties of shooting a movie on location in the Austrian Alps.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971-12-31
Mooch Goes to Hollywood
Overview: A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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Borrowed Pasture
1960-01-01
Borrowed Pasture
Overview: Richard Burton narrates this stunning film of two Polish soldiers struggling to make a living from a derelict farm in Carmarthenshire.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Violent Universe
1969-04-11
The Violent Universe
Overview: Thirty distinguished astronomers are visited at their observatories throughout the world in this comprehensive report of astronomical theories, research, and discoveries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-11
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988-09-20
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Overview: Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-20
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003-04-03
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Overview: Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-03
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I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
1983-04-26
I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind
Overview: The story of Leonardo da Vinci: his life, his thoughts, his times, his art and inventions and the individuals who had an influence on his life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-26
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Guilty Rebel
Guilty Rebel
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Original Language: en
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